Bridge News

Saturday, July 17, 2010 — We just received this account of yesterday’s Stakeholder Teleconference Call (held in lieu of what had been a scheduled Stakeholders Meeting) from Stephen Kosacz, by way of Ben Porter. — The Ed] Despite last minute meeting cancellation, there were a significant number of people who logged into the conference call indicating (to me) that the Stake Holders are still committed to their part in the process. Jon Carter (Kittery Town Manager), Ben Porter (SeacoastBridges.com, Stephen Kosacz (Autoworks, Inc.) and Gary Beers (Kittery Town Councilman) met at the Kittery Town Offices NH DOT rep Bob Landry took a day off from …

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Subject: Re: strategy for/after this Friday’s Stakeholders’ Meeting Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:01 PM From: Benjamin S. Porter To: Stephen Kozak All I have never done this before either. What I do know is that we need a single voice. In theory, the teleconference tomorrow is limited to members of the Stakeholders and Steering Committees. I think we need to be respectful of the NH and ME officials that will be in the meeting, and not introduce new participants to them by phone. We can probably do this by limiting the conversation to people who they are already familiar with. To make sure everyone …

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Subject: strategy for/after this Friday’s Stakeholders’ Meeting Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:34 PM From: Stephen Kosacz To: [Deleted for privacy. — The Ed.] Conversation: strategy for/after this Friday’s Stakeholders’ Meeting This Friday’s Connection Study sounds like it will be a non-event but at least we’ll be continuing the dialogue and showing that the Community is not taking every possible opportunity to be heard. I think that Ben Porter has offered some rational dialog to the babble by pointing out that the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge has enough life left to it that decisions on that could be tabled for the present connections study since …

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[Again, this is being posted Friday afternoon, but we have edited the posting time and date to place it in the correct chronological order.] From: “Benjamin S. Porter” Date: July 14, 2010 3:06:54 PM EDT To: carol morris Subject: Re: Connections Study: Potential Meeting Change Carol There are several reasons that we should meet, even with the announcement of the remaining 5 alternatives. 1 – What are the respective positions for the two DOTs? It is a good guess on the first and last two, but the middle alternative is anybody’s guess. I would hate to say that one alternative or another is favored by …

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[Note — this e-mail from Carol Morris of the Connections Study was forwarded to us by a recipient. We are posting it on Friday, July 16, but have edited the date of the post to make it show up in the correct chronological order in relation to other posts.] [Begin message.] From: carol morris [mailto:cmorris@morriscomm.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:32 AM To: Undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Connections Study: Potential Meeting Change All, As you know, we have scheduled a combined Steering/Stakeholder Committee meeting for this Friday at 10 am at Kittery Trading Post. The purpose of the meeting is to update you on progress towards completing …

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Friday, July 16, 2010; 11:44 a.m. — We received the following e-mail from Ben Porter on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:20 PM. As we noted in our first Bridge News post, things changed rather quickly. We thought it would be useful to provide this as-is to set the state fur subsequent events. Also, the Drift Gallery Bridge Exhibition (see below) is still on. [Salutation] This Friday appears to be a significant day with the possibility of some key decisions regarding the fate of the Memorial and Sarah Mildred Long Bridges. And in addition, there will be an opportunity to gather and share our thoughts about …

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